Peñasquitos Adobe and City College Archaeology
Speaker: G. Timothy Gross, PhD, Professor of Archaeology, San Diego City College. For over 20 years students from San Diego City College have been excavating at the Peñasquitos Adobe as part of the college’s anthropology curriculum. The excavations are an integral now part the Certificate of Performance in Archaeology program at City which is designed to prepare students to work as archaeological field and lab crew.
This presentation will describe the program and discuss some of the history of the work done by City College students, and it will include information from the latest field season, spring 2016, as well as some of the analytical results from the recently-completed Artifact Analysis class. Some of the success stories of the program will also be discussed. Info: San Diego County Archaeological Society, 858-538-0935.